Quotes About Guidance

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Copii sunt ca niÈ™te flori delicate, tânjesc dup? lumin?, iar dac? nu o au, îÈ™i las? capul în jos.

Du kommer langt med vettet, sa faren min alltid, men der hvor vettet ikke bærer lenger, må du lite på Gud

At present, he said, I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.

I never gave them courage," he said. "I was able to focus theirs.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I (Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation, 1932)

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I

On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme," meaning, essentially, "One leads by calm.

But you will ride it—instead of being driven before it—Thank Heaven that you are there, & at the helm of our destiny

For from this day forward his world can only widen. An existence that began in a crib, grew to a house, and extends over a two-block bicycle ride will now go even beyond that. I will share him with another woman, other adults, other children, other opinions, other points of view. I am no longer leading. I am standing behind him ready to guide from a new position.

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

Be like father, but don't do like father

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want him for long He maketh me to lie down in green pastures and there are no green pastures He leadeth me beside still waters and still waters run deep

With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.

No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.

Bana bak, Billy, bir s?r vereyim sana. Ne varsa çarÅŸaflarda var, Billy. Kad?nlardan uzak dur, atlardan uzak dur, sonra durdu, kartallardan uzak dur, Billy. Atlar? seven atlar? bulur, kartallar? seven kartallar? bulur. Durdu, ba??n? çarÅŸaf?n alt?na soktu. Gitmem gerekiyor dedi Uçan Billy Turner. Kad?nlar? seven içkiyi bulur dedi William Campbell. Atlar? seven...

Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.

If the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God, then an appropriate measure of God's will is the test, 'is it safe?'... This view runs counter to what we find in the Scriptures. I want to reiterate the fact that the center of God's will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world.

I don't know what it means for others, but for a follower of Jesus Christ, what it means to live on the edge is to stand at the epicenter of where the kingdom of God confronts the kingdom of darkness. When evil raises its ugly head, taunting God and tormenting the weak, the adventurer rises up and moves toward the challenge. Like a guided missile, the adventurous spirit moves toward its greatest challenge.

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.